From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2004-08-31 04:00:59 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] ferret coughing
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <BAY15-F8N4WgakGHrfn00061942@hotmail.com>
Night coughs are most often cardiac, I would consider and echocardiogram to
eval the heart. Like we find in cats you cannot always appreciate it on an
x ray and only true way to diagnose is echo. Good Luck.
Dr. Sue
>From: diwilliams310@aol.com
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>Subject: [ferrethealth] ferret coughing
>Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:21:02 +0100 (BST)
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>My 4.5 year old ferret Coco, has been coughing for the past month. When it
>first started we had her on Clavamox for 10 days. She was still coughing. I
>took her back to the vet who took x-rays to check her heart. The x-rays
>showed her heart looked fine. Her stomach was distended and since I didnt
>see her eat that morning, my vet suspected a partial blockage. We fasted
>her for 8 hours and took the x-rays again. Her stomach showed no blockage.
>The vet said he could see a couple of spots on her lungs with the second
>x-ray and prescribed her torbegesic and cefa-drops twice a day for 10 days.
>She is still coughing. I havent changed anything in their room. She is
>eating and maintaining her weight and is acting pretty much normal. Her
>cough is very dry sounding, almost like a honk. She mainly does it during
>the night or early in the morning. What could be causing it? Is there
>another test or x-ray that should be done? She is not sneezing or wheezing
>at all. If this is a case of pneumonia does it usually take this long to
>get rid of it? Is there a better antibiotic I should have her on? Any help
>would be greatly appreciated.
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